Soft Skills for Project Managers™ workshop brochure

Soft Skills for Project Managers™

▪ Identify and prioritise stakeholders.

▪ Develop your influencing strategy and deploy structured negotiation techniques.

▪ Build and lead an effective and productive team.

Face-to-face and online delivery:

▪ 2 day workshop – in-house and open public.

▪ Optional 1-2-1 coaching available.

Soft Skills for Project Managers™

The Problem:

For a project to be successful, you need to ensure a combination of hard and soft skills:

On one hand, you need to get things done. Whether you are a qualified Project Manager or someone who manages projects as a part of their role, you will have acquired the qualifications and technical skills to execute a project. The hard skills.

On the other hand, you need to get things done with people. This is where a lot of projects fail due to a lack of team support and sponsorship. The soft or ‘power skills’

The Solution:

There is much more to managing projects than just being technically proficient. Experienced Project Managers know that project soft skills are usually the hardest to master.

This practical workshop focuses on the people aspects – the soft skills – of a Project Manager’s role. You will learn and rehearse techniques to become effective at the nontechnical/people aspects of project management – maximising the chances of delivering your projects more effectively.

Workshop Benefits:

Many Project Managers have acquired technical project skills (e.g. Planning, Risk Management, Issue Resolution, Estimating, etc), but there are a host of softer skills that the most successful Project Managers have. You need to be effective at the non-technical, people side of projects too – identifying and understanding who is key to your project and how to:

1 Engage and influence

2 Negotiate

3 Build, nurture and lead an effective project team

Often these people skills are what differentiates the great Project Managers from “average” Project Managers.

Who Should Attend?

Anyone who manages projects – whether they are a qualified Project Manager or managing projects off the side of their desk. This workshop will provide invaluable soft skills to all those with people management responsibilities

Soft Skills for Project Managers™

Workshop Objectives:

Your projects will have less risk, with greater satisfaction for those key project stakeholders and all who work within your projects – so a more motivated, productive project team

This 2 day, practical, exercise-led workshop involves the discussion of ideas and techniques, and a mix of interactive group-led activities to rehearse. The workshop can be delivered face-toface or online. The workshop will cover:

Stakeholder management and engagement:

▪ What is a stakeholder?

▪ How to identify your stakeholders.

▪ Understanding your stakeholders.

▪ Prioritisation and planning.

Influencing and negotiation:

▪ Understanding influence.

▪ Influence strategies.

▪ Understanding negotiation.

▪ Structured negotiation process.

Training Options:

Train your Team

Teams and team building:

▪ Team dynamics, maturity and diversity.

▪ Using Hermann’s Brain Dominance Indicator (HBDI).

▪ Fostering a collaborative environment.

▪ Sharing knowledge and experience.

Leadership for Project Managers:

▪ Understanding leadership models.

▪ Authenticity vs adaptability.

▪ Emotional intelligence.

In-house workshops are the ideal opportunity to train teams and whole departments within your organisation. Providing clarity of training focus and excellent team building opportunities. It reduces delegate travel, workshop cost and environmental impact as we train online or at your premises, worldwide.

Your Training Consultant:

Antony has experience across many industry sectors and business functions, gained from nearly 30 years’ practical experience, of which 15 were running his own project consulting business from offices in Europe and Asia.

His project management experience ranges from very small to £10M+. He is a PRINCE2, PRINCE2/Agile and AgilePM qualified Instructor and MSP Practitioner. He has competently worked with new managers up to multi-national ‘C’ Suite leaders.